2. Black Friday was the UK’s biggest day for online retail everCustomers’ hunger for deals led to the biggest day of online shopping ever in the UK. Online retailer Amazon reported that it sold more than 7.4 million items.

4. Cyber Monday boosted online traffic by 60 per cent…Analysts say online traffic was 60 per cent higher on Cyber Monday than on a normal day in 2015, and traffic between midnight and 8am was up nine per cent on 2014.

5. …and at least 15 retailers’ websites couldn’t copeAccording to The Guardian, at least 15 retail websites experienced “some form of loss of service” on Black Friday. They included big names like Tesco, Argos and John Lewis.–